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物理学家蛋白质折叠导论

Introduction to protein folding for physicists

Pablo Echenique

摘要:

从蛋白质氨基酸序列的知识中预测蛋白质的三维天然结构,称为蛋白质折叠问题,是现代科学中最重要但尚未解决的问题之一。由于柔性分子的构象行为只不过是一个复杂的物理问题,越来越多的物理学家正在进入蛋白质系统的研究,带来了强大的数学和计算工具,以及物理学科固有的敏锐直觉和深刻的图像。这项工作试图促进这种过渡的第一步。为了实现这一目标,我们提供了一个详尽的原因的蛋白质折叠问题的巨大相关性,并总结了目前的状态,旨在解决它的方法,我们还提供了一个介绍这些生物杂聚物的特殊结构,我们物理定义的问题,说明这个(通常是隐含的)定义背后的假设。最后,我们回顾了“特殊风味”的统计力学,通常用于研究天文大相空间的大分子。在整部著作中,许多分散在文献中的材料被放在一起,以提高理解力,并作为方便的参考。

英文摘要:

The prediction of the three-dimensional native structure of proteins from the knowledge of their amino acid sequence, known as the protein folding problem, is one of the most important yet unsolved issues of modern science. Since the conformational behaviour of flexible molecules is nothing more than a complex physical problem, increasingly more physicists are moving into the study of protein systems, bringing with them powerful mathematical and computational tools, as well as the sharp intuition and deep images inherent to the physics discipline. This work attempts to facilitate the first steps of such a transition. In order to achieve this goal, we provide an exhaustive account of the reasons underlying the protein folding problem enormous relevance and summarize the present-day status of the methods aimed to solving it. We also provide an introduction to the particular structure of these biological heteropolymers, and we physically define the problem stating the assumptions behind this (commonly implicit) definition. Finally, we review the 'special flavor' of statistical mechanics that is typically used to study the astronomically large phase spaces of macromolecules. Throughout the whole work, much material that is found scattered in the literature has been put together here to improve comprehension and to serve as a handy reference.

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